c. 1758
actual: 16.5 x 24.3 cm (6 1/2 x 9 9/16 in.)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, by descent?; to his heirs. Georges Huot, his great-grandson, sold; to George S. Hellman, New York, sold [through Kende Galleries, New York, April 10, 1952, lot 75]. Ira Spanierman. Martin Reymert and Gerald Norman, New York and London, sold; to Fogg Art Musuem, 1968
Black ink and gray wash over black crayon on cream laid paper, mounted on cream laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, touches of white chalk on tan antique laid paper, laid down on blue card, framing lines in black chalk, lower right corner made up
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on white wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown and black ink, brown wash and white gouache, over traces of brown and chalk chalk, on gray-brown antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, yellow laid paper strips adhered to face, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, squared in black chalk
17th-18th centuryFrenchRed chalk over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on oiled, thin wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrench